The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-08
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
Mrs. Cleveland has invited the young la
dies of the senior class at the college where
she graduated to visit Washington this sum-
mer as guests at the White House.
Haggard's best novel has had a curious ex-
perience in an English public library. ''King
Solomon's Mines" is placed among the works
on mineralogy.
More than ninety million feet of spruce
lumber is coming down the Connecticut riv-
er from the northern part of New Hamp
shire. This breaks the record for Com
necticut river lumber drive.
Senator Leland Stanford continues to be
mentioned in and about San Francisco as
candidate for President. No man west of
the Mississippi has yet entered the White
House. Stanford's friends consider this
point in his favor.
Rev. ]. P. knight, who died last week at
Yarmouth. Eng, was the composer Of the
popular song Rocked in the Cradle Of the
Deep" 1t was while he was in America
and when only "a, that ne wrote this cele-
brated piece. He published some 200 compo-
sitions under his own name or that Of Philip
Mortimer" among them "She Wore a
Ex-Gov. Franklin j. Moses of South Caro-
lima, lawyer, judge, forger and ornament of
the rogue's gallery. has been pardoned out
of State prison by Gov. Ames. He was SEN
fenced to three years in October, 1885, and Is
represented to belin poor health and likelyto
die soon. Among others who suffered from
the petty rascality Of Moses in his last
stages of crime was Col. I. w. Higginson.
The Presbyterian church has amended its
confession Of faith by emitting the section
which forbids man whose wife has died to
marry her sister. This had long been dead
ried his deceased wife's sister was modera-
tor of the assembly and president of the
chief theological seminary of the denomina-
ton.
Modjeska's aim, according to her own
frank confession, is to make money enough
to return to California and pass the remain
der of her days on her sunny ranch. The
strain and incident of being on the road have
troubled her greatly during the present sea-
son, and many of her performances have
been given when she was scarcely able to
walk.
A New York gentleman identified with
Tammany Hall, who is unfavorable to the
denomination Of President Cleveland, while
in conversation with politician recently
was asked If he was not afraid that Cleye-
land would be the choice of the Democratic
national convention next year. He replied :
No. / am not afraid of Cleveland, but am
little afraid Of his wife,"
In one way and another the Russian tax
payer has pleasant time of it. When he
stays at home and enjoys the blessings of
Russian liberty the taxes are bad enough,
but the new law on passports will make a
Russian who wants to 60 from home to sea
the world pay handsomely for the privilege.
A tax Of thirty rOubles In gold 1929 is levied
for the first three months of his absence.
Then the rate increases and the absence
tax for one year will be $500.
The many American readers to whom Mr..
Robert Louis Stevenson's name has become
so familiar in the past few years will hear
/ with regret that the brilliant story writer
and essayist is in very delicate health. Con-
sumption, even, is feared as the outcome of
his present condition, and he has gone to
Switzerland to recover If he may. II is said
that his present illness was developed by a
voyage 70 TINS country In the steerage, which
he undertook for literary purposes. This
was certainly costly devotion to his art, and
we only hope that 1t may not prove fatal.
The Detroit Tribune says: '"The bob"
Lincoln boom is rapidly spreading among
the Republicans of the South The colored
people are especially enthusiastic, and say
If the Republicans will nominate the son of
their emancipation for President they will
smash the solid South to pieces in spite of
all creation. There is no doubt that the
nomination of Lincoln would make the
Bourbons in several Southern States feel
dizzy as long as the campaign lasted. There
would be more excitement in the South over
Bob Lincoln than there has been over any
man put up for office since the war"
When Queen Kapiolani was in Washing
ton Bandmaster Sousa Of the Marine band
received orders to play the Hawaiian nation.
al hymn. He had meyer heard of such 9
hymn and could find no musician in the city
that was familiar with it. Sousa according
waited upon the Queen at her hotel and she
loaned him pianOforte score of the hymn
This was at II D. M, and he sat up all might
arranging the parts for his 40 instruments.
AT o'clock the next morning the Queen
heard the Hawaiian hymn played with fine
effect, as she drove to the wharf on the way
to Mount Vernon.
Ex-Secretary Chambers son, John p.
Hale Chandler, now in his 22nd year, ID
taking quite a conspicuous part in the Sena.
torial canvas, and it may be that his infiu.
ence will raise the tide in favor Of Mr.
Chandler and make 1t run high enough to
land the ex-Secretary's "ship" in the much
desired haven, the United States Senate.
The Dover Republican says that the young
fellow bids fair to surpass his illustriOus
grandfather, for whom he was named, in
political power and influence.
A small branch of the Presbyterian church
known as the United Presbyterians, have
long stood out against all instrumental mu.
sic in church. A year or two age the general
assembly of that body repeated the rule for.
bidding the use of instruments in the wor
ship of God, and at the recent assembly in
Philadelphia, an attempt to discipline the
| church in Keokuk, Iowa, for using an or
| gan failed. The vote stood two to one in ia
vor of the organ as follows: For the organ
ministers, 81; elders, 46; total, 107 Against
the organ-Ininisters, 80; elders, "a total, "a
This was sufficiently decisive The Keokuk
church will keep its organ.
A Nova Scotia mother, Mrs. Mcpherson
placed her three-year-old daughter tempo
rarily in the Halifax Infants Home for safe.
keeping. Without her knowledge, the man.
ayers of the home gave the child to family
living at distance to be adopted. When
the mother discovered what had been done
she applied for possession of her child Judge
Smith, of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
has just decided the case against her on the
ground that the mother has no locus stands
that she has no right to the custody of hel
child so long as her husband may be alive.
Mr.. McPherson's husband deserted her sew.
eral years ago.